Joab Jackson
Tech Writer, arts dilettante
Book Reviews and Author Profiles
All reviews were published in the Baltimore City Paper, unless otherwise noted.
Author Profiles
:
Is God a Mathematician?" Mario Livio
,
The Urbanite (1/2 page down)
,
2009-03
.
Remade in America: Susan Muaddi Darraj Explores Adult Lives Of Immigrants' Children
,
2007-08-22
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Chris Cross Cultural: Writer Kim Jensen Fuses the Personal With the Political
,
2006-03-29
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You Must Go Home Again: James Whorton
,
2005-01-26
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Signals in the Noise: Peter Wayner Stalks the Surreptitious Art of Steganography
,
2002-06-02
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Full-length reviews
:
Spy Lame: A Book About What Your Stuff Says About You Doesn't Reveal Enough
,
2008-08-27
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Made to Disorder: Steve Levy's New Book Reveals The Upside And Downside Of Your iPod's Shuffle Mode
,
2006-11-22
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Star Search: Two New Books Examine The New Informational Overlords, Google
,
2005-11-16
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Cash Woes: A New Spate of Books Show How the Love of the Green Infects Our Lives
,
2005-09-14
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Made to Order: The Dumbing Down of the Robot Mind
,
2002-04-17
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Lush Life: Remembering Charles Bukowski
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1994-07-20
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Capsule reviews:
The Imposter
,
2009-03-25
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More Information Than You Require
,
2008-11-10
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Matala
,
2008-06-04
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Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began
,
2008-04-30
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The Best of LCD: The Art and Writing of WFMU-FM 91.1 FM
,
2008-04-30
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The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (On a Shag Rug) in the Seventies
,
2007-12-19
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Later, at the Bar
,
2006-06-27
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Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and the Wild West Show
,
2006-02-08
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The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
,
2005-12-14
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Wild Ducks Flying Backwards
,
2005-08-31
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The Emperor of Gondwanaland
,
2005-03-05
.
Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America’s First Lady of Food
,
2005-05-18
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The Good Wife
,
2005-04-05
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No Place to Hide
,
2005-03-09
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Harold's End
,
2005-03-02
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Villages
,
2004-12-01
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Human Capital
,
2004-10-27
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My Old Man
,
2004-10-06
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Sweet and Vicious
,
2004-09-08
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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
,
2004-06-23
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The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor
,
2004-05-12
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
,
2004-04-28
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Toward the Livable City
,
2004-02-11
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Stories From Another World
,
2004-01-14
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Songbook
,
2003-11-05
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Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
,
2003-09-24
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Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster
,
2003-08-06
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Alison's Automotive Repair Manual
,
2003-07-03
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21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com
,
2002-08-21
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The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century
,
2002-07-31
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How the Universe Got its Spots
,
2002-05-29
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Science Fictions: A Scientific Mystery, a Massive CoverUp, and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo
,
2002-03-13
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The Future of Life
,
2002-01-23
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001
,
2001-11-14
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Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis
,
2001-07-01
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The Impact of the Gene
,
2001-08-15
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The Code Book, The Advent of the Algorithm
,
2000-11-08
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A Treasury of American Folklore
,
1999-10-13
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